Goals!

Christmas is my absolute FAVVEEE time of year!! Although now I've eaten all the food it's seriously time to get back to the gym!! I can honestly say this has been the best Christmas I have ever had, and I hope this feeling lasts into the best January I've ever had etc etc etc! 

To try to make sure that this year really is the BEST, I've set myself some goals..I spoke about some challenges for this month specifically in my previous post, which you can find here, but this is some more general goals for the year to come!

I don't usually like to make goals as I can be quite the pessimist and I think what's the point as I wont complete them and then I will feel rubishhhhh about myself! BUT this year is going to be different which takes me on to my first goal..

- Stop being such a pessimist!! You  don't know things will go wrong unless you try!! 

- Continue going to the gym regularly, it makes you feel soo good!

- Think before every purchase..do I really need that new lipstick when I have one in basically the same shade? Saving that money will be much more beneficial!

- Really get in control of my anxiety. I feel like I have been doing SO MUCH better this past month, and I have no doubt that keeping positive will help this. This leads on to..

- Try one new food item every week. A lot of my anxiety is based around food - will it make me ill? will I be allergic to it? will I hate it? I need to make trying new food an absolute priority this year!

- Travel more. I want at least one trip out of the country this year, but I also want to explore more of THIS country. Go for a night away somewhere in the country every so often and EXPLORE!

- and my biggest goal of all this year...STOP PROCRASTINATING!! This one is going to be the hardest to achieve as I am in suchhh a habbit of getting home from work, sitting down, turning on the telly and watching YouTube/Netflix for 2 hours. This HAS to change, imagine what I could do with that time!! 

Do you have any goals for this year????

So it's another new year..

Here it is again. The beginning of a new year. This time of year always feels quite daunting to me, as if the last year is a chapter that has been closed and now its time to move on, create new goals and start all over again.

However, this year is different.

Most of the things you worry about, never happen.

Take 5 minutes to relax every so often! It works wonders..

I got this mug from Give The Dog A Bone when I visited York earlier in the year!

My anxiety is something that has really held me back during the whole of 2016..and 2015, 2014, 2013.. etc etc but it is something that this year I am determined to change. No longer will I be confined to only doing things I feel are "safe" and wont challenge me at all. This year is going to be all about challenges.

To kick start the year, I have set myself two challenges - the first being not to spend ANY money on anything that is not needed. My anxiety got so bad last year that I had to leave my job and start all over again at the bottom of the career ladder. While this has been amazing for my mental well-being, it hasn't been so great on my bank account and I need to retrain myself in to only spending on necessities.

The second challenge I have set myself is to do the 30 day squat challenge. I go to the gym regularly, and really enjoy exercise. The feeling that you have accomplished something after every work out is a feeling I don't want to give up, and over the festive break I have really missed working out. I go with my best friend and honestly it's so much fun. I am on Day 2, and so far, so good.

I don't know what this year holds for me and for once I am not scared. I am excited. Let's make some memories.